Released: February 21, 2012
Length: 1:25:37

Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu, Greg K-H has a new job, the OSI affiliate programme, the Ubuntu Enterprise Remix, a new Fedora Project Leader and Linux kernel power saving features...

0:01:21 Introduction

• Controversy over BusyBox alternative — this is what Bradley and Fab were talking about in their FOSDEM interview
• Minecraft on Android now has Survival Mode

0:11:50 Releases & News

• Sabayon 8
• ReactOS 0.3.14
• Crunchbang Update
• NetBSD 5.1.2
• OpenShot 1.4.1
• First oVirt release
• Chrome 17
• Chrome for Android
• Vim Touch
• Security: TRENDnet camera backdoor
• Security: Satellite phone encryption cracked
• New Linux kernel brings power saving features
• Canonical pulls funding from Kubuntu
• Greg K-H leaves Suse for Linux Foundation

Greg Kroah-Hartman

• Wayland 1.0 release coming up, 0.85.0 is out now
• OSI affiliate programme
• Ubuntu Enterprise Remix
• Nginx commercial support
• New Fedora Project Leader announced

Robyn Bergeron

• HP releases Android kernel for TouchPads
• Firefox has 80% of market share in Antarctica
• H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness

0:54:45 Feedback

Supporters: Tony Hughes of Blackpool LUG, UltrAnalog, Donald Mahan, Chris Atkinson, Evgeny Kuznetsov,  Remy van Elst, Eric Beyer, Michael Van Hoe, Enzro Greenidge, Michael Swierczek and Daniel Lowe

• We got some audio feedback from Dave Ostroske
• Tom Link sends us some thoughts on our discussion on the Apple iBook publishing software
• Rafael Beraldo writes from Brazil about MegaUpload, SOPA, ACTA and more, sending us a link to a story on Ars Technica — we talked about a lot of this in our Digital Rights Update
• Rik Boland sends us information on conflict minerals a few week back and so I did some reading around it
• Rofaxen likes how Wikipedia dealt with the SOPA protest, making the article about SOPA the only one you could easily get to on the day
• Mike Swierczek emails us about the US and its push towards perpetual copyright
• Mike really enjoys the show listening and wants Dan to do the accent of Jeff from Coupling
• Laurențiu Roman sent us a link to a Phoronix article comparing Linux distros to German beers
• Ron McCurry reminisces about the Atari ST

We had other emails from Wilbert, Rick, Chris from Australia, Jonathan Nadeau, dacresni, Alan Bailward, Marc Sinclair, Gary, peterplusplus, Rahul Sundaram, Keith Z-G and Shai Berger.

Song: Gimme Blood by Houdini Roadshow from their new album Are You Ready (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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Released: February 16, 2012
Length: 1:52:28

In this episode, we bring you a ton of coverage of FOSDEM 2012 including interviews with John Sullivan, Richard Fontana, Gerard Braad and Bradley Kuhn.

0:01:15 Introduction

• Fab will start a full-time writing job for The H next month
• Jeff Gehlbach gave Fab a bottle of Talisker at FOSDEM
• Jerod Lycett asked us to mention this petition at the US White House

0:13:34 Interview: John Sullivan

Fab interviews John Sullivan, Executive Director of the FSF.

0:25:21 Interview: Richard Fontana

Fab finally gets the chance to talk to Richard Fontana, Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat.

0:38:25 Interview: Gerard Braad

Fab talks to Gerard Braad, who is a Fedora and Mozilla contributor, has been a listener to our show for a while and does F/OSS and general IT consulting in China.

0:53:28 Interview: Bradley Kuhn

Bradley Kuhn continues to defend his top guest spot on the show as Fab caught up with him again for another interview. Bradley is the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

1:16:23 General Reflections on FOSDEM 2012

Dan asks Fab about the experience at FOSDEM in general and we go into more detail on some of the issues raised in the interviews. 

Song: Oh, Internet by Hannah Hart (all rights reserved)

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Released: February 11, 2012
Length: 0:47:39

In this special episode, we talk to the great people of the Open Rights Group and get updated on the latest digital rights issues post-SOPA.

Jim Killock and Peter Bradwell of the Open Rights Group give us an introduction to what the ORG does and then update us on the latest digital rights issues beyond SOPA and PIPA.

• ORGCon 2012
• ACTA
• Megaupload Takedown, UK student faces extradition
• EU Data Protection Directive
• W3C Do Not Track standard, EU involvement

Song: The Hot One (Feat Nicky Talent) by The Corinthians (all rights reserved)

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Released: February 2, 2012
Length: 1:42:24

Kimble and his inflatable tank, ACTA, a lot of security news, Ubuntu introduces The HUD, Google Sky Map now open source, Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell and much more...

0:01:03 Introduction

• Happy birthday Aq!
• Fab is shutting down LXnews and the Sixgun Blog, but has started a new project called Dehype
• Oil Rush has been released
• Fab has been running CyanogenMod with Ice Cream Sandwich on his Xoom for a while now and gives a quick status update

• Video: Great talk from Linux.conf.au
• Our next live show will be on Friday, 10 February

0:14:26 Releases & News

• GhostBSD 2.5
• KDE 4.8
• Rust 0.1
• ffmpeg 0.10
• OwnCloud 3.0
• Git 1.7.9
• Xorg vulnerability allows anyone to unlock a computer
• Kernel root exploit
• Recent WPS vulnerability
• ACTA is being signed without any proper democratic review at all
• O2 privacy debacle
• EU wants a “right to be forgotten” on the Internet
• Kimble ordered an inflatable tank

Inflatable Tanks

• Mandriva postpones decision about their financial future, and again
• Canonical retracts decision to disable java on Ubuntu systems
• Fedora Packages site launched
• Poettering explains the /usr merge
• Epiphany is being integrated into Gnome Shell
• Google Sky Map now open source
• Extremadura plans rollout of 40,000 Linux desktops
• Ubuntu announces “The HUD”

1:10:26 Microwatch

• Microsoft is hiring a Linux engineer

1:13:51 Feedback

Supporters: Rubens Durans Kinjo, Kirk Richard Holz and Eric Geissinger

• We had voicemail from the Wing Commander
• Robin Catling of the Full Circle Podcast writes about extraditing UK citizens to the US
• Remy Van Elst wants to recommend a couple of good podcasts he’s heard: Sourcetrunk and GNU World Order
• Matthew Grecar sends us email on BrewDog's beers
• Ben says logstash has the best logo ever — and he is right!

• Kelly Hays tells us about Open Source Ecology (which we actually have talked about on the show before)
• James Lewis corrects us that Arista Transcoder uses Gstreamer and not FFMpeg in the backend
• Drasticheadcase writes to Dan about Ubuntu touchscreen keyboards
• JCCar tells us about their plight with Flattr and their bank

We had other emails from Matt, Michael Spannbauer, Paul Williams, Gerard Braad, Jason Harrison, Rubens Durans Kinjo, Mark Sinclair, Robert Pfeiffer, Tom Bourque, Keith Z-G, John Hill and Matěj.
 

• Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 (May 2-5 in Vienna, Austria): please donate to make it happen!
• The Ohio Linux Fest's call for talks is now open

Song: Something by Airtone (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC)

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Released: January 29, 2012
Length: 1:46:37

A wagonload of SOPA fallout, Megaupload takedown, Apple iBooks Author and a metric ton of rants...

0:01:19 Introduction

• A new Bruce Springsteen album has been announced
• https://docs.google.com/a/sixgun.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDVnR1BjM1R3Q19NM3pjb0swU0VwU1E6MQ">Win a €5 Flattr voucher!
• Cory Doctorow published his Chaos Communication Congress talk as an article on BoingBoing
• Relics of Annorath — another Unigine game coming to Linux
• Hyrulecraft

Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball

0:13:00 Releases & News

• No notable releases
• SOPA & PIPA shelved indefinitely — but the war isn’t over, see ACTA
• A day after SOPA is shelved: Raid on Megaupload, Kimble arrested (more information) 
• Side effects of the shutdow, Anonymous strikes back
• The Register: Furious freetards blitz the wrong SOPA
• Video: the Amazing Atheist on SOPA/PIPA
• US Congress can now take works out of the public domain
• It looks like Valve hasn’t given up on Steam for Linux quite yet
• Desura going open source

0:55:36 Microwatch

• Matthew Garret: More problems with Secure Boot

1:01:07 Crapplewatch

• Apple inundates Samsung with more lawsuits in Germany
• iBooks Author is Apple trying to embrace and extend ebook standards

Engage!

1:12:49 Feedback

Supporters: Sijmen Cozijnsen, Tom Sparrow, Remy van Elst — from Flattr: corenominal, Chris Woollard and Dave Ostroske

• David Yang sent us a pro-SOPA story he found
• Greg corrects Dan on a few points
• Dailey Chandler is a member of the American Chestnut Foundation and tells us more about it
• Beesa says the ACF having their own magazine isn't that much of a stretch if you think about it
• Michael Pacey sent us a really nice email saying how much he enjoys the show
• Branden Andersen sent us information on the iBooks Author story we talked about earlier
• Michael Pettet sent us a link to an episode pf This American Life about the inner workings of Apple factories in China: audio, transcript
• Thomas Ritter emails us about Scribus and desktop publishing
• Yannis A. sent us an email about some rather disturbing Linux distros he has discovered

We had other emails from Sven and dacresni.

Song: La Batalla by La Olla Express (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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Released: January 21, 2012
Length: 1:18:37

NSA releases SEAndroid, two professional media apps are coming to Linux, Nokia sells patents to patent troll, Microsoft locks down ARM devices, Samsung wants to merge Bada with Tizen and the Macho Man makes an appearance on the show.

0:01:30 Introduction

• "Macho Man" Randy Savage
• Batman Chooses His Voice
• If you can’t go to FOSDEM but can make it to Liverpool come and see Dan's band 20lb Sounds at The Zanzibar on Saturday Feb 4th at 8pm
• Katy agrees that a desktop widget to calculate molar weight is pretty cool
• Oxygen Font now ready for testing
• We took the network offline for the SOPA strike

The Macho Man during his prime in the '80s

0:10:51 Releases & News

• Astaro Security Gateway 8.3
• BSD: FreeBSD 9.0
• BSD: PC-BSD 9.0
• First systemd release with the journal is out
• Britain to extradite student to US over link site
• The NSA releases SEAndroid
• Google creates design guidelines site for Android
• Samsung aims to merge Bada with Tizen
• The EFF asks court to sanction Astrolabe
• Two professional multimedia applications are coming to Linux
• Nokia sells 450 mobile patents to patent troll

Hot patent troll chick from Sisvel

0:41:22 Microwatch

• Microsoft locks down ARM devices with secure boot

0:47:23 Feedback

Supporters: Alexander Van der Merwe, Kirk Richard Holz, Robert Krenitsky, Peter Clark — from Flattr: corenominal, Tony Jones, Chris Woollard, Dave Ostroske

• Jason Sipula gives us some more info on the Galaxy Tab 10.1N (which is the special version they built after the lawsuit from Apple in Germany)
• Stephen Mulcahy came across a media converter called "Arista"
• Aaron asked about upgrading and reinstalling tips a few weeks ago and now wrote to say thanks and that he upgraded to F16 over Christmas
• Xavier Sythe sent us a link to some leaked pictures of Tizen from a recent conference
• Branden Andersen sent us a link to a Boing Boing story about Lamar Smith (the Congressman who drafted SOPA), apparently he ran afoul of copyright laws himself
• Tazzo loves the podcast and asks about connecting his HTC Desire S to his Ubuntu laptop for Internet access passthrough

Shirley Crabtree (aka. "Big Daddy")

• Yaroslav Halchenko says Microsoft is quite friendly to Kinect hackers — we remind him that this wasn't always the case

We had other emails this week from Pedro, Remy Van Elst, Willem, Alexander van der Merwe and Tom.

Song: It’s Not Unusual by Joe Ressington (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA)

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Released: January 17, 2012
Length: 1:06:01

We talk to Jonathan Nadeau about accessibility in free software, the Accessible Computing Foundation, Northeast GNU/Linux Fest, the accessibility work Jonathan helped with for Trisquel and much more.

We interview Jonathan Nadeau once again and talk about what he has been up to:

• The Accessible Computing Foundation
• Northeast GNU/Linux Fest
• Frostbite Media
• Jonathan interned at the FSF last year
• Trisquel

Stuff Jonathan is not involved in:

• The American Chestnut Foundation

Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation, this month's issue: "The Shape of Chestnuts to Come"

Song: Skull Splitter by Blind Creation (all rights reserved, played by permission)

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Released: January 14, 2012
Length: 1:24:45

Ubuntu TV announced, MPL 2.0 released, LiMux reports success, CouchDB gets forked, Mandriva seems to be really dying and much more including a lot of soundboard fun.

0:01:20 Introduction

• Soundboards!
• We would really appreciate access to Hangouts On Air
• Browser market share: Chrome is catching up to Firefiox fast
• Watch Shipwrecked from the Shaft guys, it’s great!
• We can now hide things from time? — what is this I don’t even...

0:10:41 Releases & News

• FreeNAS 8.0.3
• The 3.2 kernel
• Scribus 1.4
• Hadoop 1.0
• Clementine 1.0
• Many HP printers (and possibly other makes) vulnerable to attack
• New slow-motion DDoS attack that is hard to detect
• SOPA basically pushed through in Spain
• Asus will unlock Transformer Prime bootloader
• Ubuntu TV announced
• MPL 2.0 released — Simon Phipps seems bullish on it
• Munich Linux migration project LiMux reports success
• Android set to return to the Linux mainline
• Looks like Mandriva is really dead this time
• CouchDB founder forks the project to Couchbase
• NASA launches new open source site

0:58:16 Microwatch

• Remember how the Android update experience is so horrible and Windows Phone was supposed to be better? Yeah...

1:01:00 Feedback

Supporters: James Daws — from Flattr: chalkahlom, cyberkiller an Tony Jones

• djhyland liked our music pick for Episode 242
• Remy Van Elst sent us a story from OSNews about Software Freedom and the predictions RMS made 30 years ago
• Svend White sent us a page about Pogonology which apparently is the study of beards

Friedrich Engels and his awesome beard

Johann Strauss II, who is really Jezra from the past

• Kevan V. tells us about Microsoft's new mobile strategy
• James Cornwall explains to us why KDE4 is great for chemists and tells us how he converted a friend from Windows 7 to Mint 
• Paul Williams sent us a story about UK retailer Comet being sued by Microsoft
• Simon writes regarding the GoDaddy and mentions gandi.net

We had other emails this week from Ben, Alistair Munro, Chris Collinson, David Lutton, Martyn Lewis and Paul W. B.

Song: Like The Blues Man Do by the Monkey Gland Blues Band (all rights reserved, played by permission)

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Released: January 8, 2012
Length: 1:54:31

In the first episode of 2012: Amazon sells a ton of Kindles, news from 28C3, GoDaddy supports SOPA, Honeycomb and the effect on AOSP, Mint forks Gnome, Microsoft enables Linux on their cloud and Samsung changes the bevel colour of their tablets to thwart Apple in Germany.

0:02:58 Introduction

• Welcome to 2012!
• Fab's voxcaster script
• Fixed intro music has been deployed
• Get better soon, Jezra!
• Fab will be at FOSDEM
• Video: Firefly fans (and Neil Gaiman) stand up for free speech at a US university — story here
• Bitcoin seems to be on somewhat of a comeback
• The CyanogenMod Compiler project

0:16:10 Releases & News

• siduction 11.1
• Gentoo 12.0
• Endian 2.5
• Tiny Core 4.2
• CentOS 6.2
• Oracle Linux 6.2
• BSD: pfSense 2.0.1
• Firefox 9 — Mozilla also renewed their search deal with Google
• Extremadura is dropping Linex
• Anonymous hacks Stratfor
• Amazon moves 4 million Kindles in December — all of these are running on Linux
• 28C3: New attacks on GSM, Cory Doctorow talks about "the coming war on general-purpose computing"
• GoDaddy pulls their support of SOPA amid huge protests
• Twitter releases TextSecure under GPLv3
• Solaris 11 source code gets leaked
• Queru on not releasing the Honeycomb source and AOSP
• HTC releases bootloader unlock tool
• Is Compiz in trouble?
• KDE’s new Oxygen Font
• Linux Mint forks Gnome Shell with Cinnamon — more on the Linux Mint blog

1:03:28 Microwatch

• Microsoft is enabling Linux deployments on their Azure cloud system

1:06:12 Crapplewatch

• Apple’s patent win against HTC and Android isn’t as big as reported
• Modified Galaxy Tab passes German court's muster

The normal Galaxy Tab 10.1 (above) compared with the German version

1:13:12 Feedback

Supporters: NYBill, Russ (K5TUX from the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast), Mark Rice, Philip Behnke, Hanna Pietikäinen, Jon Kulp, Kirk Richard Holz, Anthony Roberts, Adam DiFrischia and Arne Neuman — from Flattr: corenominal, cyberkiller, eksortso and TonyJ

• Jeremy educates us that grep originally came from vi
• Heine Pedersen tells us about an open source conversion story from Denmark
• Simon Phipps emailed Dan about the removal of Sun Java packages from Ubuntu since he wrote about it on his Computer World blog and some people seemed confused over the story
• Francis (Grizzly) Smit has been listening to the show for a year and sends us a nice thank you note
• Imran Chaudhry also wrote to say he enjoys the show
• Leslie used to know a guy in South Africa who’s first name was Doctor
• Gary says Burt Reynolds is mental, case in point: video of Burt slapping a reporter
• Aaron asks for distro hopping tips
• the_axis heard us on short wave radio in the US on New Years Eve talking about SOPA, we were broadcast thanks to Stephen Michael Kellat of LISNews
• Yannis A. sends us this story of a woman in Germany ordered to pay a film company compensation for illegally sharing a film when she doesn’t even have a computer or a wireless router in her house
• Łukasz "Cyber Killer" Korpalski says the Qt library can do a lot more than just UI widgets, he mentions the game Warzone 2100 that uses Qt for everything
• Ben Arnold posted this to a mailing list that Dan is on: Suicide Linux

We had other emails from Charles Kerr, Tom Sparrow, Aitor Pazos, Florian and Billy Toulas.

• The UUPC Wing Commander has his own website

Hanni-B.A. says: "I pity the fool when a plan comes together!"

Song: Living in the Dark (Urban Flow Remix by The Dark Clan) originally by Patricia Wake (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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Released: December 29, 2011
Length: 1:50:28

We summarise 2011, talk about the biggest stories from our perspective and what we were up to throughout the year.

0:01:38 Introduction

• Some people might have gotten our donation page in German recently because PayPal did something weird that Fab couldn’t replicate — we are sorry for that, it is fixed now
• Including this episode, we recorded a whopping 60 shows this year!

0:06:00 January

• We reviewed Linux Mint 10 and CyanogenMod 6.1
• Fab launches LXnews
• Apple introduces an app store on Mac OS X
• Sony sues Geohot
• Steve Jobs goes on medical leave
• OSI and FSF join to fight CPTN Holdings
• Fab reviews LMDE
• We did a special show on the situation in Egypt

0:18:51 February

• Dan gets hold of some MeeGo netbooks and reviews them
• We went to FOSDEM
• Honeycomb is unveiled
• The Elopcalypse engulfs Nokia
• Canonical messes with Banshee donations

0:33:18 March

• Fab starts ramping up video production on sixgun.tv
• FreedomBox Foundation funding succeeds — FreedomBox Update Talk From Bdale Garbee
• We get in trouble over the randomness of our MeeGo competition
• Fab becomes addicted to The Yogscast
• Fukushima happened
• Shuttleworth starts sniping at Gnome
• HP announces it will ship all PCs with WebOS installed
• Apple claims they own the word “app store”
• RSA is hacked
• AT&T initiates merger with T-Mobile

0:44:45 April

• April Fools: GNU/Linux Outlaws
• Google gets into trouble for not open sourcing Honeycomb
• Amazon launches their own Android app store
• Microsoft sues Balls & Noble
• Firefox 4 comes out
• Episode 200: Our podcasting howto special
• Symbian gets un-open-sourced
• We get interviewed by Les Pounder and release that as a podcast
• Fab reviews Gnome 3
• We interview Allison Randal about Project Harmony — twice

0:53:40 May

• Osama Bin Laden is killed
• Fab was a guest on TLLTS 400
• The Kindle launches in Germany
• We interview Carl Manneh from Mojang
• Fab goes to Samba XP
• Miguel de Icaza creates a company around Mono
• Microsoft buys Skype
• CentOS comes under fire for their development model
• Dan reviews Unity

0:58:34 June

• We launch Pony Express on the Android Market
• Linux goes 3.0
• Microsoft earns more money from Android than Windows Phone
• Dan goes to the Red Hat Partner Summit and gets several interviews, including Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
• “The Big Man” Clarence Clemons dies
• Adobe drops AIR for Linux
• AVM court case kicks off in Germany
• We discuss the Gnome Shell developers being hostile towards extensions
• We release our well-received Bitcoin episode

1:02:55 July

• Karen becomes Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation
• Firefox 5 is released, the whole update insanity starts
• Fab reviews Arch
• Google+ launches, we get on it
• HP releases the TouchPad
• Fab reviews the Motorola Xoom
• Shuttleworth demands copyright assignment

1:10:22 August

• We interview Christian Heilmann from Mozilla
• Emacs violates the GPL
• We interview Becky Hogge for the second time
• OggCamp 11: live show, recap
• Loriot dies
• We launch Leave Your Hat On
• Linus wants to fork Gnome
• Motoroogle

1:13:48 September

• We interview Randal Schwartz again
• Fab gets addicted by Warhammer 40K again
• Linux turns 20
• We interview John Graham-Cumming
• Oracle stops shipping Java for Linux
• We review our favourite podcatchers
• Fab looses his hair
• Four years of LO!
• kernel.org hacked and Linux Foundation servers are compromised

1:18:24 October

• Google+ opens to all
• The Secure Boot controversy starts
• Amazon releases a slew of new Kindles
• MeeGo officially dies
• German federal trojan discovered by CCC
• Steve Jobs dies
• Timezone database threatened and saved
• Dennis Ritchie dies
• Beefy Miracle
• The Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich are announced
• Apple threatens Apfelkind

1:21:26 November

• HP can’t make up their mind about what to do
• Microsoft contributes code under the GPLv3 to Samba
• The whole SOPA thing kicks off
• AVM looses their case in Germany
• Ice Cream Sandwich source code is released
• Balls & Noble fights back against Microsoft

1:25:30 December

• Fab wins NaNoWriMo
• We interview Richard Hughes on the ColorHug
• Minecraft goes official
• CarrierIQ
• The journal proposal
• Official Gnome Shell extensions website launched
• We launch Planetfall
• Pony Express 1.1 released
• Fab gets his Galaxy Nexus and reviews it
• Megaupload controversy
• Linux Mint takes Banshee donations too
• HP decides to open source WebOS
• Kim Jong Il dies
• BT sues Google over Android

1:34:01 Year 2011 Summary

We summarise 2011 and talk about what we thought were important trends throughout year.

Have a happy new year, everyone!

Song: Super Exotic 60′s Beat by Juanitos from their album Best of Juanitos (licensed under Creative Commons BY 2.0 France)

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Released: December 23, 2011
Length: 1:30:14

On the last regular episode for 2011: UMG can pull videos willy-nilly from YouTube, BT sues Google, RIM is pretty much dead, Ubuntu removes Oracle's Java, Apple supports patent trolls and Ubuntu gets a porn lense. 

0:02:45 Introduction

• Kim Jong Il is dead
• One year of LXnews
• Judge kills lawsuit against Sony over removal of the "Other OS" function
• Arch is getting package signing
• Humble Indie Bundle 4
• Beer: Badger Hopping Hare

0:17:28 Releases & News

• Qt 4.8.0
• WordPress 3.3
• Blender 2.61
• SOPA vote delayed
• UMG claims "right to block or remove" YouTube videos it doesn't own
• BT sues Google over Android
• It looks like RIM is pretty much dead
• French call for tender: € 2 million support contract for Debian
• Ubuntu removes Oracle Java
• Developers suggest Ubuntu Gnome Shell spin
• The Ubuntu porn lense
• Linaro gives out email addresses and IRC cloaks in exchange for  broad patent and copyright license from contributors
• Is the Android Update Alliance already dead?

1:00:37 Crapplewatch

• Apple uses patent trolls to do their dirty work

1:04:57 Feedback

Supporters: Donald W. Grier, John Myers and Richard Smith — from Flattr: corenominal, cwoollard, Happibun and TonyJ

• Rick Bragg made some patches to the theme tune he did for us, you can get this track off Bandcamp if you like it
• Chris Woolard forwarded us this security notice from Canonical about pulling Oracle's Java from Ubuntu
• nibl sent us this Star Trek animation video they made about SOPA

Burt Reynolds in all his glory

• Luke (from Birmingham) wrote to say thanks to Fab for pimping Mintcast recently
• Heine Pedersen says he stumbled upon the IBM DeveloperWorks Linux Zone which has a lot of great articles
• Paul Williams sent us a great Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody video featuring Dr. Teeth
• Jameson recommends CrashPlan for automatic backups similar to Carbonite

We had other emails from TSJ, Peter Sloth, Adam aka. alienkid, Roberto Arroyo, Rob and Gary.

• Hack to the Future, February 11 in Preston, Lancashire 

Merry Christmas (or whatever you might or might not celebrate) to all of our listeners!

Song: (Man With A) Clockwork Heart by The Dark Clan from their album Free Stuff (licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-ND)

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Released: December 18, 2011
Length: 1:34:03

On this show: The Megaupload Song, Creative Commons 4.0 has entered the drafting stage, Linux Mint takes Banshee's revenues too, HP open sources WebOS, Microsoft allows OSI licenses in the Windows 8 app store and Apple looses two lawsuits and a trademark.

0:01:37 Introduction

• Star Trek TNG ambient warp engine sound on YouTube — you can also do it from the command line in Linux
• Fab now has a Galaxy Nexus: preliminary video review
• Check out Fab's new Minecraft let's play: Planetfall

0:15:29 Releases & News

• RHEL 6.2
• CentOS 6.1
• Rockbox 3.10
• The Megaupload Song

• Whatever happened to gOS?
• The Creative Commons 4.0 drafting process has started
• Linux Mint takes Banshee revenues
• HP to open source WebOS

0:56:56 Microwatch

• Microsoft to allow OSI licenses in the Windows 8 App Store

1:00:54 Crapplewatch

• Apple is hurting open standards on the web
• At least they are loosing lawsuits against Samsung in the US and against Motorola in Germany
• Apple lost the iPad trademark in China

1:14:22 Feedback

Supporters: Craig Squire and Raymond Newbery — from Flattr: corenominal and cwoollard

• Marshall Graham enjoyed our interview with Richard Hughes and hopes Richard will come back on in future
• Jonathan Gregory theorises about the name of the Unity desktop environment
• Michael Spannbauer sends us information about the 28C3 which will be in Berlin from December 27 - 30 — if you can't attend in person, check out their satellite events
• Tom Reynolds from Megaglest says we should check out their game

We had other emails this week from Alistair Munro, Mark Rice and Owen Oakeley.

Song: Rabbits Don’t Ever Get Married by Hank Penny (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Copyright © 2011 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.

Released: December 11, 2011
Length: 1:46:38

This week on Linux Outlaws: We catch up with tons of stuff that happened while we were busy not doing a podcast like the Carrier IQ debacle, the journal announcement, Doom 3 being opensourced, lots of stuff about the Galaxy Nexus and much more.

• Fab won NaNoWriMo!

Fab did it!

• The Bonn University Shakespeare Company on Google+
• Dennis Appelon Nielsen points out that we should have at least mentioned SELinux in our security topic in Episode 238
• Bruce Springsteen is going on tour, new album forthcoming
• Brainstorming for device sync in gPodder 3x
• Minecraft 1.0 released, jeb now lead designer
• Google Music now has a store
• Balls & Noble continues the fight

Balls & Noble

• Moggers87 asked us to mention his Speex version of the show
• Piracy is not theft

0:24:14 Releases & News

• Linux Mint 12
• OpenSuse 12.1
• Tiny Core 4.1
• CrunchBang Linux R 20111125 — support CrunchBang
• Gpodder 3.0 (and now 3.0.1 because of a bugfix)
• Arduino 1.0
• QEMU 1.0
• Security: Flaw in Apache could allow attackers into internal networks
• Even the BSA is now anti-SOPA
• The Carrier IQ debacle — Schneier weighs in
• SFLC asks for DMCA exception
• Doom 3 open sourced
• Google releases official factory image for the Galaxy Nexus, makes re-flashing the device easy
• Galaxy Nexus volume bug
• Native user interface for Firefox on Android
• The journal, a next gen syslog
• We discuss the recent controversy about Ubuntu's and Mint's popularity
• Citrus UI proposal for Libre Office
• Gnome Shell Extensions website launched
• FLOSS Weekly episode on git

1:13:15 Android App Tip

• World of Goo for Android — especially awesome on a tablet

1:15:40 Feedback

Supporters: Durand D'souza, Matthew Clarke, Nicholas Ruest, Duncan Michael Bell, Alison Chaiken, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Daniel Lowe, Kirk Richard Holz, Ian Mavero and Clive van Hilten — from Flattr: fwbd, cyberkiller, corenominal, thelovebug, TonyJ, and cwoollard

• Emilien who we met at FOSDEM this year sent us a very nice email
• Tom Marble sent us some info about FOSDEM 2012 — check out the calls for papers
• Dan Devine wrote to tell us about Linux.conf.au which is coming up in Ballarat from the 16th - 20th of Jan 2012
• James Lewis sent Dan some tips on how to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu
• Jonathan Gregory writes to say he loves Unity but feels ashamed because nobody else seems to
• Galen White, Linuxnetzer and Frank Bell all write with feedback about our recent Linux Security discussion
• Axel Pahl tells us the Apfelkind trademark thing became the topic of a whole sketch on German TV show Extra3
• Jon asks which distros we currently use
• Jason Harrison is moving to Linux from Mac and says he’s looking for a cloud backup solution to compare to things like Carbonite

We had other emails this week from Robin Catling, Tom Wilson, Clive Van Hilten, Tom Wisniewski, Peter Hultqvist, Brad Alexander, Remy van Elst, Lowe Schmidt, Luke Huxley, FiftyOneFifty, Tom Ames, Erez, Alan Farough and Jan.

• Pony Express 1.1

Song: Baby Please Don't Go by Big Bill Broonzy (Public Domain)

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Released: December 1, 2011
Length: 0:51:39

This time on the show, we talk to Richard Hughes on colour management and the ColorHug.

We interview Richard Hughes about his work on colour management in Gnome and his new open hardware project, the ColorHug.

Richard Hughes

Richard explains how he came to work on colour management for Red Hat and how he got the idea to design hardware. He also explains where he expects the project to go from here.

• The original ColorHug announcement on Google+
• Learn more about the ColorHug

The ColorHug

Song:  Requiem for a Fish by  The Freak Fandango Orchestra from their album Tales Of A Dead Fish (licensed Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0)

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The Kindle Fire gets rooted, US Internet censorship, German court upholds the GPL in important decision, Ice Cream Sadwich open sourced, Adobe kills Flash on mobile, Barnes & Noble shows some balls and Apple gets an evil chairman replacement.

0:01:38 Introduction

• Check out Mintcast, they produce a good show and it's not at all limited to only Linux Mint
• 40th birthday of the 4004
• According to Ars Technica, Steve Jobs was a crybaby
• We play a hilarious audio clip from the Ardent Atheist podcast with Emery Emery — sent in by Noble Baker

0:18:25 Releases and News

• Development Release: Linux Mint 12 RC
• Fedora 16
• OLPC OS 11.3.0
• Oracle Solaris 11
• 4Chan hit by DDOS
• The Kindle Fire has been rooted
• Everybody is against the proposed US Internet censorship, except Hollywood
• AVM case: German courts defends the GPL in a landmark decision
• Ice Cream Sandwich source code released
• Adobe kills Flash for mobile
• Amazon’s cloud is now the 42nd fastest supercomputer
• The ColorHug
• Gnome design updates

1:00:19 Microwatch

• Barnes & Noble exposes Microsoft’s dirty patent tricks

1:04:59 Crapplewatch

• Apple gets a biotech patent shark to replace Jobs as chairman — how very fitting

1:10:45 In-Depth Topic: Linux Security for End Users

We discuss security on Linux systems from the perspective of an end user.

1:45:28 Feedback

Supporters:  

Neil Viglieno, Andy Benz, Kirk Richard Holz, Stuart Edgar, Remy van Elst and from Flattr: corenominal, thelovebug, tante, jrutila, bobobex, TonyJ, cwoollard and johanv

• Tim wrote in reference to Episode 236 and says that the Windows network location settings stuff isn’t Internet Explorer related but more to do with the firewall settings and network discovery
• Todd wrote about automatic cars and backs up Fab about the fact that automatic cars are a lot more prevalent in the US than in Europe
• Cyber Killer tells us about the Desura game distribution system
• Johann gives Dan tips to ease his Unity woes
• nibl aka. Marcus sents us a very German joke that Dan doesn't get
• Ryan Ische says the Stack Exchange network is the solution for finding support for Linux

And we had other emails from Jonas Jonsson, Tzafrir Cohen, Rofaxen, Bill Hixon, Carl Miller, Klaatu, Kevin Granade, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Adam and Clippy (aka. Simon).

• Drupal Downunder 2012: Januray 13 - 15 in Melbourne

Song: Occupy Wall Street (the new studio version) by David Rovics (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Released: November 13, 2011
Length: 1:37:31

Vim turns twenty, we talk about the future of Linux Mint and Fedora, the Unity developers have issues with listening to community feedback, Ubuntu removes Mono from the default install and Microsoft contributes to Samba.

0:02:20 Intoduction

• Fab apologises for his audio quality during the last show, we have fixed this now
• If you send us feedback email and one of us responds, please use reply all on that conversation
• Also, if you want to send feedback on a topic, please go to the show notes and at least read the story we linked there
• Believe it or not, we had no idea that GNU World Order is the new name of Klaatu’s The Bad Apples podcast
• Booze: Ardbeg — one of the finest scotch whiskys in the world

Dr. Teeth

0:11:55 Releases and News

• Mercurial 2.0
• It looks like Apfelkind is in for a tough fight against Apple
• Vim turns twenty
• The future of Linux Mint

Clem's Linux Mint 12 Desktop

• Changes coming to Fedora 16 and beyond
• Ubuntu removes Mono from default CD for 12.04
• Unity and the community

1:01:17 Microwatch

• Microsoft contributes code to Samba
• If you can’t compete, litigate

1:10:13 Applewatch

• Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network

1:12:58 Feedback

Supporters: 

Remy van Elst,  Patrik Alzén, Duncan Michael Bell, Marcos Luz and from Flattr: corenominal, cwoollard and cyberkiller

• Michiel Beijen writes about Android updates and specifically about how Google's Nexus One will not get an update to Ice Cream Sandwich — he also directs us to a study of 17 different Android phones and how they have been supported with updates
• Xavier Sythe also wrote us about ICS support for the Nexus One
• Jason Corfman gives us details on Indiana Linux Fest (April 13 - 15 2012 at the Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel)
• Andrés Muñiz-Piniella sends us a story relating to finger print recognition and severed limbs
• Luke Platypuss tries to help Dan sort out his HTC Desire
• Robbie MacG writes about Amazon developing KF8 and asks why they don't just use ePub 3
• Roan says his girlfriend thinks Fab sounds Indian as well
• Akiva Bloch recommends aptosid, a rolling Debian distro

We had other emails from Rick Bragg, Erez Schatz, Andreas, Bryan P., Yannis A., Jonni and Christopher Hertel.

• Dan says if you're in the area you should come to Barcamp Liverpool next week (November 18 & 19)
• Follow us on Google+

Song: Day’s End by Shearer from the album Monument (licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Released: November 6, 2011
Length: 2:00:38

HP is staying in the PC business, Canonical opens retail stores, discussions on Secure Boot, Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share, Apple patents "swipe to unlock" and we discuss Mark Shuttleworth's recent comments on Ubuntu and power users.

  0:02:11 lntroduction  

• Finally, another game for Dan: GTA V announced
• John McCarthy, father of the AI and Lisp, dies aged 84
• New Google+ features
• Humble Bundle Voxatron debut
• Galaxy Nexus launch date official: November 17
• If you want to read along with Fab’s NaNoWriMo novel as he writes it, check out his Gitorious repo for it

0:27:08 Releases and News  

• OpenBSD 5.0
• Linux From Scratch 7.0
• Puppy Linux 5.3 "Slacko"
• WikiLeaks faces financial problems due to banking blockade, this spoof video they did seems appropriate
• White House says “we can’t do anything about software patents” — are we being trolled?
• Privacy problem discovered in the Dolphin HD browser for Android
• HP now staying in the PC business?
• Two white papers on UEFI Secure Boot published
• Linux Foundation announces long term support kernel tree
• Linux Mint is preparing the switch to Gnome 3
• Canonical & Dell open retail stores in China
• Sony completely buys out Ericsson for $1.475 billion

    1:09:01 Microwatch  

• Windows XP is now ten years old
• Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

  1:14:40 Crapplewatch  

• Apple patents “swipe to unlock”

  1:17:37 Discussion  

• Shuttleworth doesn’t understand power users — or he doesn’t want to
• Apparently he also said this in his keynote at UDS: "Moreover, it appears that there's no place for applications that don't support indicator-applets and are available in the Ubuntu Software Center. These apps should be removed/banned until they get support for the new Unity notification area."

  1:36:24 Feedback   Supporters:  Remy van Elst, Jezra Lickter, Kirk Richard Holz, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Bernd Schlapsi and Armin Krauss  — on Flattr: e2jk,  corenominal, cyberkiller, tristan_2468, cwoollard, thelovebug and variaatio  

• We have some audio feedback from Gareth Witty
• Robin Catling (of Full Circle Podcast fame) says our new theme tune sounds like the Top Gun soundtrack
• Frank Bell tells us that people are being burgled because of Facebook
• Stuart Edgar relays a positive story of the open source model at work
• Keith Z-G says Blender is the new Emacs
• Bogus Zaba recommends the Gnu World Order Podcast for people wanting something more technical than our show

We had other emails from MunkyBone, Patrick Dailey, Toby Meehan, Heine Pedersen, Matt Read, Brad Alexander, Greg, Akiva Bloch, George Goodyear, Mat and Xavier Sythe.

Song: The Nano Song by Dan Lynch — if you really like the tune, you can buy a copy from Bandcamp   Copyright © 2011 Sixgun Productions — except where otherwise noted, this show and all its accompanying content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0.